Seminar Series Schedule
All seminars take place in 409B at 11 a.m. unless otherwise indicated.
Faculty Seminar 2025 - 2026
Date | Speaker | Title | 
| Sept 2, 2025 | Hamed Jafar-Nejad, M.D. Molecular & Human Genetics 海角社区  | "Building Better Biliary Branches" | 
| Sept 9, 2025 | Ryan S. Dhindsa, M.D., Ph.D. Pathology & Immunology 海角社区  | "Population-scale genomics for therapeutic discovery" | 
| Sept 16, 2025 | Hongjie Li, Ph.D. Molecular and Human Genetics 海角社区  | "Mapping Aging and Longevity at Cellular Resolution Across the Whole Organism" | 
| Sept 23, 2025 | Ashish Kapoor, Ph.D. IMM-Center for Human Genetics UTHealth Houston  | "Molecular genetic basis of electrocardiographic QT interval variability" | 
| Sept 30, 2025 | Guangyu Wang, Ph.D. Cardiovascular Sciences Houston Methodist  | "AI Approaches for Multi-Modality Genomics and Image in Biomedicine" | 
| Oct 7, 2025 | George Rodney, Ph.D. Integrative Physiology 海角社区  | "Turning the Heat Down in Skeletal Muscle" | 
| Oct 14, 2025 | Jun Wang, Ph.D. 海角社区  | "To Beat or Not to Beat: A Hippin in the Heart" | 
| Oct 28, 2025 | Lachlan Rach, Ph.D. Health, Medicine & Behavioural Sciences The University of Queensland, Australia  | "Development of venom peptide inhibitors of acid-sensing ion channel 1a as potential therapeutics for multiple sclerosis." | 
| Nov 4, 2025 | David Durgan, Ph.D. Integrative Physiology 海角社区  | TBA | 
| Nov 11, 2025 | Mehmet 艦en, Ph.D. Department of Biology & Biochemistry University of Houston  | TBA | 
| Nov 18, 2025 | Vishnu Dileep, Ph.D. Department of Molecular and Human Genetics 海角社区  | TBA | 
| Nov 25, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | Happy Thanksgiving! | 
| Dec 9, 2025 | Ergun Sahin, M.D., Ph.D. Huffington Center on Aging 海角社区  | TBD | 
| Dec 16, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | Happy Holidays! | 
| Dec 23, 2025 | NO SEMINAR | Happy Holidays! | 
| Jan 6, 26 | NO SEMINAR | Happy New Year! | 
| Jan 13, 2026 | Melanie Samuel, Ph.D. Huffington Center on Aging 海角社区  | TBD | 
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jacob Reimer, Ph.D. Neuroscience 海角社区  | TBD | 
| Jan 27, 2026 | Bruno Di Stefano, Ph.D. Center for Cell and Gene Therapy 海角社区  | TBD | 
| Feb 03, 2026 | Xiao Li, Ph.D. Texas Heart Institute Integrative Physiology 海角社区  | TBD | 
| Feb 10, 2026 | Jeremy E. Wilusz, Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology 海角社区  | TBD | 
| Feb 17, 2026 | Mario Escobar Galdamez, Ph.D. | TBD | 
| Mar 3, 2026 | Pamela Wenzel, Ph.D. Integrative Biology and Pharmacology UT Health Houston  | TBD | 
| Mar 10, 2026 | Joseph Hyser, Ph.D. Virology & Microbiology 海角社区  | TBD | 
| Mar 17, 2026 | Sean Hartig, Ph.D. Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism 海角社区  | TBD | 
| Mar 24, 2026 | Thomas A. Cooper, M.D. Pathology & Immunology 海角社区  | TBD | 
| Mar 31, 2026 | Barna Dubok, Ph.D. Neurology 海角社区  | TBD | 
| Apr 21, 2026 | Gustavo Ayala, M.D. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine UT Health Houston  | TBD | 
| May 19, 2026 | Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Cancer Biology Division of Discovery Science University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center  | TBD | 
      


